Adobe's family of generative AI models for images and design, integrated into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express, designed for commercial use.
Not rated yetFreemium
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Tools, Software & Models
Directories of AI tools and models, reviews, comparisons and pricing.
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Tools, Software & Models tools
Free accessibility app connecting blind and low-vision people with volunteers, plus Be My AI for instant AI descriptions of photos.
Not rated yetFree
Presentation software with smart templates that automatically adjust layouts as you add content, plus AI to generate slides.
Not rated yetPaid
Visual no-code platform for building full web and mobile applications, with AI features to generate apps and speed up building.
Not rated yetFreemium
Online design platform with templates and AI tools for generating images, editing photos, writing copy and creating presentations and videos.
Not rated yetFreemium
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding, research, images and voice conversations.
Not rated yetFreemium
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and research, known for long-document work and thoughtful responses.
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AI platform for marketing and sales content and go-to-market workflows, from copywriting to prospecting and content repurposing.
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Models directory
Tools, Software & Models
SunoApr 20, 2023
Bark
Suno's open transformer model that generates realistic multilingual speech, plus music, background noise and non-verbal sounds from text.
- Type
- Audio & Music
- Context
- —
- Weights
- Open
BAAIJan 30, 2024
BGE-M3
Open multilingual embedding model from the Beijing Academy of AI supporting dense, sparse and multi-vector retrieval in over 100 languages.
- Type
- Embedding
- Context
- 8K
- Weights
- Open
OpenAIJan 5, 2021
CLIP ViT-L/14
OpenAI's contrastive image-text model that embeds images and text in a shared space, enabling zero-shot classification and image search.
- Type
- Vision
- Context
- —
- Weights
- Open
Mistral AIMay 29, 2024
Codestral
Mistral AI's first code model: 22 billion parameters trained on 80+ programming languages, with fill-in-the-middle support for completion.
- Type
- Code
- Context
- 32K
- Weights
- Open
DeepSeekJan 20, 2025
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek's open-weight reasoning model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning, matching leading reasoning models at release under MIT.
- Type
- Reasoning
- Context
- 128K
- Weights
- Open
Black Forest LabsAug 1, 2024
FLUX.1 [dev]
A 12-billion-parameter open-weight text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs, known for strong prompt adherence and text rendering.
- Type
- Image
- Context
- —
- Weights
- Open
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